Five priorities for Chicago. Each starts with a concrete action and a public way to measure progress.
Your city. Your money. Your right to know. Every contract searchable, every records request tracked, and every major project tied to a name, a deadline, and a public scorecard.
A permit, a pothole, a new storefront: each should feel like a service, not a scavenger hunt. Find the slowest processes, fix them in public, and prove the fix with numbers residents can check.
Chicago should use technology the way a good engineer does: carefully, transparently, and with a human in charge. Before the city buys or expands an AI system, residents should know what it does, what data it touches, and how to challenge it.
Chicago's ingenuity is its advantage. Small businesses, independent builders, and local talent deserve a clear path into city work and a City Hall that clears the way instead of standing in it.
A working city starts with daily life: safe streets, reliable services, and a government that listens to every ward, not only the loudest ones. Put the block-level experience next to the citywide numbers, then act on both.
Meet with residents. Map the services that create the most friction. Inventory the city's use of AI and the decisions those systems support.
Set out service timelines, contract visibility, and records response baselines. Name the departments responsible for improvement.
Launch focused improvements, collect resident feedback, and publish what changed. Keep the results visible as the next priorities take shape.
Every priority needs more than a headline. It needs an owner, a starting point, a next step, and a way for residents to see whether it is working. That is the standard I want Chicago to expect from City Hall.
Your experience belongs in this work. Tell me about the process that wastes your time, the service that never follows through, or the opportunity your neighborhood is ready to build.
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